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The IPv6 addressing schemes

You've
probably seen various network cards with IPv6 addresses, and after many years of sticking to simple four octet IP addresses, it may be a little intimidating seeing all those zeros and colons. "How the heck am I expected to remember my own IP address, let alone my entire network?",you must be thinking. Well, you probably won't remember as much, but after a few weeks of actually looking at the numbers, you'll start to see patterns, and things will make more sense. Here's an example:

The preceding
screenshot is from a simple home client, and even though it should come as no surprise to you if you've been in the IT ...

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